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Portuguese investor group Espírito Santo Saúde, our Healthcare Sector Development Board
combined the offerings of a wide range of Siemens businesses – Med, I&S, SBT, SIS, A&D, PTD
and SEN – to develop a fully integrated healthcare campus that includes more than 30 special-
ist clinics and doctors’ offi ces, a 130-bed general hospital, an assisted-living facility and a
nursing home. The solution encompasses everything from the most advanced medical systems
and IT and telecommunications technologies to energy, lighting and building systems. Using
an integrated IT infrastructure geared specifi cally to healthcare workfl ows, Hospital da Luz is
making the paperless clinic a reality. The result is not only better patient care but also greater
safety, comfort and convenience for patients, residents and healthcare professionals alike.
We’re close to our customers – in 190 countries around the world
To meet the challenges of today’s global market, we have to be competitive at every point in the
value chain. That’s why we’re optimizing our existing structures and continually upgrading
our processes. We’re also strengthening our businesses by expanding our product portfolio
and adjusting our value chains in high-growth markets such as Asia. For instance, we’ve intro-
duced a standardized purchasing process that has cut procurement costs substantially over the
last few years. The use of advanced production systems is enabling us to make continuous
gains in productivity every year. By increasingly integrating our production facilities into high-
growth markets, we’re paving the way for outstanding operational results worldwide. And we
haven’t lost sight of quality. Extensive training and certifi cation programs for project manag-
ers and the introduction of quality assurance gates have noticeably improved our project man-
agement. Over the last few years, we’ve also increased the quality and considerably reduced
the costs of our own internal services by bundling them in a new Global Shared Services unit.
In all our businesses – whether in Industry, Energy or Healthcare – software plays a crucial
role. As part of top+, we’ve launched a new program to systematically improve the professional
qualifi cations of our software engineers. Within only nine months, experienced software archi-
tects can qualify as senior software architects through on-the-job training. And the program
not only expands participants’ technical horizons. It also encompasses group workshops and
intensive personal mentoring. Once certifi ed, senior software architects become part of an
ever growing global network of engineering excellence.
By concentrating on innovation, customer focus and global competitiveness, our businesses
are implementing the top+ tools to leverage synergies Company-wide and develop powerful,
leading-edge solutions that benefi t and drive the success of our customers around the world.